Letaba is great for Scops Owls but as Wildtuinman says, not easy to see. Try to locate them by their calls at night but even then they are like ventriloquists, they can be quite difficult to pinpoint but when you eventually manage you will see why they are so difficult to see.

We saw the Scops at Afsaal during our recent trip and they are true masters of camouflage, it took me an awful long time to actually get to "see" it as I was looking at what I thought was a lump on the branch, and that through binoculars. We heard them calling on our night drive as well.

One of the best places in the KNP to see this small, secretive owl is Letaba’s camping site! How? Procedure: At night (in the Letaba camping site), wait and listen for a peculiar frog croak…except this sound comes form a tree! No, its not a tree frog, go look! (Take a torch.) Then, spot the small Scops owl!

This is the Law o’the Jungle,as old&as true as the sky;The Wolf that shall keep it prospers,the Wolf that shall break it dies;the Law runs forward and back
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf,&the strength of the Wolf is the Pack
Kipling

Satara aint bad either. We had the privilege of having TWO roost in front of our hut A24, late September. Masters of disguise to the extent that my wife could not see them until I changed her position relative to the Scops owl so that it was silhouetted against the sky. Saw them three days running roosting on exactly the same branches.